Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NYLON PRICES are being cut for the first time since 1947 in an attempt to bolster sluggish sales and avert widespread layoffs in synthetics plants. Du Pont and Chemstrand ordered 10% to 22% price cuts in nylon yarn. Dacron will be up to 30% cheaper...
RAYON BOOM goes on despite hot competition from Dacron, nylon, etc. Rayon production last year topped 972,800,000 Ibs., a 10% jump over 1953's previous record and 9% more than all other man-made fibers combined. Rayon's biggest new customers: tiremakers, manufacturers of industrial hose, belting and carpets...
PRICE CUTS of from 15% to 20% have been made by Du Pont on nylon, Dacron and Orion. Eventual result: lower prices for synthetic rugs and clothes...
...strong that it can tow a car, yet so thin that cameras and movie projectors will be able to hold 35% more of it than of present films, will be manufactured next year by Du Pont. The new film's base is made of Cronar, synthetic cousin of Dacron; Du Pont spent eight years and $6,000,000 developing...
...collarless white cotton shirts and blue pants that they had worn across the border and plunged into their first hot baths since they were imprisoned. While soaping, they asked for, and promptly got, Scotch and sodas. Then they put on new civvies, and marveled at the slacks made of Dacron, a cloth they had never seen before. They began to ask questions. Had they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport...